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Stephanie Polowe-Aldersley Faculty Cultural & Creative Studies National Technical Institution for the Deaf Rochester Institute of Technology 52 Lomb Memorial Drive Rochester, NY 14623-9128 Phone: 585.475.6201 (V) Email: srpnc4@rit.edu |
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Stephanie Polowe-Aldersley is Associate Professor at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, at RIT, where she has taught English for 35 years, starting as a tutor in 1974. She received her doctorate in psycholinguistics from the University of Rochester in 1985, in addition to graduate and undergraduate degrees in English Literature.Stephanie was SIG chair for TELA (Teachers of English and Language Arts) from 1985 to 1987. She was secretary of CAID from 1987 through 1989, Program Chair (organizing the New Orleans Convention) from '89 through '91, and President from '91 through '93. As Past President she chaired the legislative committee, and was co-chair of COR, the Council of Organizational Representatives Serving the Deaf. Dr. Polowe offered testimony for the EDA and the IDEA to the 103rd Congress representing COR and CAID, and participated in focus groups for the NIH under Dr. Bernadine Healey.
Stephanie also served on her local Board Of Cooperative Educational Services (serving under-served children, including deaf children) for five years, and on her local school-board for six years, where she successfully campaigned for the New York State Regents to grant high school credit for ASL. She is currently a Town Councilor in Irondequoit, New York. Dr. Polowe served as a legislator from 1998 through 2007 in Rochester New York, where she lives with her husband Stephen Aldersley, Interim Associate Dean of NTID. They have three grown children.